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Value Quotes by David Ricardo
- A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no…
- The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
- No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass…
- Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together…
- Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed…
- As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the…
- If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would…
- If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that…
- In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required…
- In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those…
- There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
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- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius